Italian astronomer Giovanni Zappa (1884–1923) was an assistant at the observatory of the Collegio Romano, adjunct astronomer at Catania, astronomer at Capodimonte and director of the observatory of Collurania and Collegio Romano. Interested in classical astronomy, he calculated orbits of minor planets and comets. (M 46011) _ _.
Discovered on 9-8-1996 in Bologna by Osservatorio San Vittore